1. Compare the city of Maycomb to the place where you grew up, noting similarities and differences.
2. The story is set in a small town in southern Alabama during the Depression of the 1930s. What aspects of the story seem to be particular to that place and time? What aspects of the story are universal, cutting across time and place? In what ways are the people you know today similar to and different from those in Maycomb?
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Setting
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1. Compare the city of Maycomb to the place where you grew up, noting similarities and differences.
2. The story is set in a small town in southern Alabama during the Depression of the 1930s. What aspects of the story seem to be particular to that place and time? What aspects of the story are universal, cutting across time and place? In what ways are the people you know today similar to and different from those in Maycomb?
Great Depression Incomes
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